Indeed, just by choosing a variety of 5 colors of fruits and vegetables to serve daily meals for the whole family, you can simultaneously enhance 5 health benefits: heart health, health.
That is also the habit of practicing healthy and scientific nutrition from People’s Artist Le Khanh – Deputy Artistic Director of the Youth Theater.
Nutritional assessment through the color of fruits and vegetables with People’s Artist Le Khanh
Heart health: Choose red fruits and vegetables
Cardiovascular disease is one of the dangerous non-communicable diseases that is increasing rapidly globally and in Vietnam.
Visual health: Choose yellow-orange fruits and vegetables
Yellow and orange fruits and vegetables (lemon, orange, carrot, apricot) contain lots of betacarotene, alpha-carotene, beta-cryptoxanthin to support vision health.
Cellular health: Choose green vegetables
In nature, many green vegetables and fruits such as kale, collard greens, lettuce, zucchini… support the health of vision, lungs, bones and teeth, and maintain cell interaction and growth.
Brain health: Choose dark green and purple fruits and vegetables
Dark green and purple fruits and vegetables (blueberries, purple cabbage, eggplant, etc.) contain beneficial substances such as quercetin and resveratrol that help prevent oxidation and reduce the risk of cardiovascular, brain and bone diseases.
Bone and joint health: Choose white fruits and vegetables
Vegetables and fruits such as apples, pears, mushrooms, white beans… are rich in phytonutrients such as ECCG, allicin, isothiocyanate, quercetin and anthocyanidins…, which are recognized by scientists as having the ability to support enzyme function.
Scientific nutrition with 5 colors of fruits and vegetables
To have good health, our bodies need to maximize the source of valuable phytonutrients from fruits and vegetables (such as ECCG, allicin, isothiocyanate, quercetin and anthocyanidins, resveratrol, betacarotene, alpha-carotene, beta-
The application of color-based nutrition is even more limited due to many reasons such as cost savings, eating habits rich in protein – few fruits and vegetables or busy work, little care for personal meals… Therefore,
In cases where it is not possible to simplify the intake of at least 400g and 5 colors of fruits and vegetables per day, choose functional foods that provide 12 vitamins, 9 essential minerals and 18 types of freeze-dried plant powders,
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